Affiliations: [a] Department of Neurology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA | [b] Departments of Pathology and Neuroscience, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA | [c] Department of Biochemistry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Corresponding author: Robert P. Friedland, MD, Mason and Mary Rudd Chair and Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Room 120-HSC, Louisville, KY 40292, USA. Tel.: +502 852 6407; Fax: 502 852 6344; E-mail: robert.friedland@louisville.edu.
Abstract: Dietary consumption of fish is widely recommended because of the beneficial effects of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on the risks of cardiovascular and Alzheimer's diseases. The American Heart Association currently recommends eating at least two servings of fish per week. We are concerned that consumption of farmed fish may provide a means of transmission of infectious prions from cows with bovine spongiform encephalopathy to humans, causing variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.
